A thorn is a rose’s friend but a gardener’s enemy.
– Matshona Dhliwayo
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- If roses tried to be sunflowers, they would lose their beauty; and if sunflowers tried to be roses, they would lose their strength. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Life may be a bed of roses, but roses still have thorns. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Maxim 29: The enemy of my enemy is my enemy’s enemy. No more. No less.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries – Howard Tayler
- among roses, be a rose, among thorns, be a thorn – Idries Shah
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- A bad friend is is worse than an enemy, an enemy you can see and avoid, but to detect an insincere friend is hard – Bangambiki Habyarimana
- Who knows you more…your friend or your enemy? It’s your enemy that pursues with passion while your friend engages at leisure. – Donna Lynn Hope
- Universe is a friend, it creates us; universe is an enemy, it kills us! It is neither a complete-friend, nor a complete-enemy. – Mehmet Murat ildan
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- One man’s thorn is another man’s rose. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Love is the only rose whose thorn’s prick is sweet. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners. – William Shakespeare
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- We must be kind and gentle gardeners with people and nature. – Bryant McGill
- When the gardeners are good, the flower will bloom. – Amish Tripathi
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- The most dangerous enemy is that enemy when your ally becomes enemy – Kamaran Ihsan Salih
- There’s ways you can trust an enemy you can’t always trust a friend. An enemy’s never going to betray your trust. – Daniel Abraham
- We are our best friend and worst enemy we wil ever fight with. Time is our enemy, but how can we fight even when time will wipe us out? – Debasish Mridha
- Joy is a loyal companion, love is a faithful friend, fear is a terrible adversary, and hatred is a merciless enemy. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Time is your acquaintance, life is your friend, death is your enemy, and existence is your soulmate. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- It is better to help an enemy than to harm a friend. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- A shrewd enemy will teach you more than a foolish friend. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Ignorance is your opponent, fear is your enemy, vice is your adversary, virtue is your friend, and wisdom is your helper. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Bruises from a friend are better than kisses from an enemy. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Only when your love of roses is greater than your fear of thorns can you grow a beautiful garden. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- If you press grapes, wine will pour out; if you crush roses, perfume will pour out; if you afflict the talented, genius will pour out. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Opportunities, like roses, come with a beautiful fragrance, but also with thorns. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Learn from roses; even when trampled they give off perfume, not despair. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Roses do not bloom hurriedly; for beauty, like any masterpiece, takes time to blossom. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- If roses did not suffer thorns on their journey to beauty, they would lose out on becoming masterpieces. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Daisies that bring you joy are better than roses that bring you sorrow. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- If roses were not special weeds would not envy them. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Roses do not bloom the same time as daisies. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- One who loves roses cannot avoid its thorns. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- He who teaches you how to tend a garden has given you more than he who has given you a hundred roses. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Roses bloom whether you praise them or not. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Roses do not take beauty advice from weeds. – Matshona Dhliwayo
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